Injection molding for prototypes

From: Lawrence LeMay <lemay_at_cs.umn.edu>
Date: Wed Sep 19 13:57:25 2001

The 8/e amber toggle switches are very difficult to find. I believe the
colors you're looking for are Amber, Orange, and Terracotta. Maroon
and Magenta probably for the 11 series. The thing is, you need to replace
all the toggle switches of the same color on each front panel, so that
the colors are all matched properly. Some switches will be faded various
amounts, etc, and its just easier to not attempt to color match absolutely
perfectly to each set of fades switch handles.

So yes, i would definutely be interested in pdp 8 color toggle switches.

-Lawrence LeMay

>
> --- Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com> wrote:
> > I got an advertisement from a shop that does short-run injection molding,
> > etc, which I haven't read thoroughly, but as this was a recent topic,
> > I'll forward it to anyone interested.
>
> I wanted to take up the groups bandwidth and attention to suggest a
> group buy - DEC toggle switches. I have a small box of toggle switches
> from PDP-8/Ls and similar devices with broken pivots. For small
> quantities,
> I was figuring I'd drill/melt out a hole at the axis and replace it with
> a wire. If a run of 100 switches in each color (goldenrod and what's
> the orange called?) wouldn't be ludicrously expensive, it might be worth
> it, but I know I'd never use more than 5-10 total.
>
> Anyone else need DEC front-panel switches? Any particular color?
>
> -ethan
>
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